NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 8 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yemimah A. King; Sarah H. Eason; Robert J. Duncan; Arielle Borovsky; David J. Purpura – Child Development, 2025
This study, involving 120 children (M[subscript age] = 4.25; SD = 0.83; 53% Female, 49% White, 23% multiracial, 16% Black, 9% Asian American, and 3% Latine) and their parents, examined parent talk constructs and their relation to children's early academic skills in 2021. Parents' talk was best represented as a three-factor structure (general,…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills, Language Usage
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Miranda N. Long; Darko Odic – Child Development, 2025
Children rely on their Approximate Number System to intuitively perceive number. Such adaptations often exhibit sensitivity to real-world statistics. This study investigates a potential manifestation of the ANS's sensitivity to real-world statistics: a negative power-law distribution of objects in natural scenes should be reflected in children's…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numeracy, Intuition, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sevim Nuraydin; Johannes Stricker; Michael Schneider – Child Development, 2024
The number line estimation task is frequently used to measure children's numerical magnitude understanding. It is unclear whether the resulting straight, horizontal, left-to-right-oriented estimate patterns indicate task constraints or children's intuitive number--space mapping. Three- to six-year-old children (N = 72, M[subscript age] = 4.89, 56%…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Numbers, Mathematics Skills, Numeracy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mou, Yi; Zhang, Bo; Hyde, Daniel C. – Child Development, 2023
A fundamental question in numerical development concerns the directional relation between an early-emerging non-verbal approximate number system (ANS) and culturally acquired verbal number and mathematics knowledge. Using path models on longitudinal data collected in preschool children (M[subscript age] = 3.86 years; N = 216; 99 males; 80.8%…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Numeracy, Number Concepts, Mathematics Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rinaldi, Louisa J.; Smees, Rebecca; Alvarez, James; Simner, Julia – Child Development, 2020
This study examined how colored educational tools improve children's numerosity ("number sense") and/or mathematics. We tested children 6-10 years (n = 3,236) who had been exposed to colored numbers from the educational tools "Numicon" (Oxford University Press, 2018) or "Numberjacks" (Ellis, 2006), which map colors to…
Descriptors: Color, Mathematics Skills, Children, Numbers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gibson, Dominic J.; Gunderson, Elizabeth A.; Levine, Susan C. – Child Development, 2020
Individual differences in children's number knowledge arise early and are associated with variation in parents' number talk. However, there exists little experimental evidence of a causal link between parent number talk and children's number knowledge. Parent number talk was manipulated by creating picture books which parents were asked to read…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parent Influence, Numbers, Numeracy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Susperreguy, María Inés; Di Lonardo Burr, Sabrina; Xu, Chang; Douglas, Heather; LeFevre, Jo-Anne – Child Development, 2020
This study investigated the longitudinal associations between children's early mathematics and their home numeracy environment (HNE). Chilean children from families who varied widely in socioeconomic status were assessed at the beginning and end of prekindergarten in 2016 (N = 419, M[subscript age] = 4:7 [years:months]), and at the end of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Family Environment, Numeracy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ramani, Geetha B.; Siegler, Robert S. – Child Development, 2008
Theoretical analyses of the development of numerical representations suggest that playing linear number board games should enhance young children's numerical knowledge. Consistent with this prediction, playing such a game for roughly 1 hr increased low-income preschoolers' (mean age = 5.4 years) proficiency on 4 diverse numerical tasks: numerical…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Numeracy, Educational Games, Number Concepts